Oct 17, 2014 - Sale 2361

Sale 2361 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
VAN VECHTEN, CARL (1880-1964)
Group of 86 photographs of the 1939 World's Fair depicting portraits of costumed attendees, Pavilion details, and general merriment surrounding the Flushing, Queens event. Silver prints, each ranging in size from approximately 6 1/2x9 3/4 to 8x9 3/4 inches (16.5x24.8 to 20.3x24.8 cm.), many with Van Vechten's embossed blind stamp, on recto, and each with Van Vechten's hand stamp and a caption, in ink, on verso. 1939